Michel Boucher wrote:
>
>
> > What deteriorating situation in Iraq are you referring to? It
> > never was good. The administration is just a little slow at
> > understanding what their friends and allies were telling them when
> > they lied about the WMDs to give themselves an excuse to invade.
> > They should have finished the job in Afghanistan before starting a
> > bigger conflict in Iraq.
>
> Except that no one will ever "finish the job" in Afghanistan. History
> is generally a harsh mistress but in this case it should have been
> given a large club to castigate the buffoons who think they can control
> Afghanistan.
>

Meanwhile, we fight to bring them a democracy that they do not appreciate
and an infrastructure they try to destroy faster than we can build it for
them. AFAIAK they aren't worth the effort. What we should be doing is
setting up a barrier to quarantine them and let them fester in their own
filth.